Eat that cookie!

[lomn75]

I'm working with a script that includes a remember-login cookie. However, I'm having trouble killing the cookie.

Under normal conditions the cookie contains a hash plus expiry of two weeks later:

setcookie(COOKIE_NAME, md5($login_string), time() + 3600*24*14);

Here's the relevant logout code

ob_start();
setcookie(COOKIE_NAME, "", 10); // timeout in 1970
unset($_COOKIE[COOKIE_NAME]);
ob_end_flush();

COOKIE_NAME is a correctly-defined constant. I'm really not sure if the unset() does anything directly associated with the cookie, but figured it didn't hurt.

Anyway, as for the problem: Works fine in IE/Win and FF/Win. Doesn't work with Safari/Mac. Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac box to test on.

Any thoughts?

 

[tim_m]

afailk setting the cookie value to "" clears it, assuming it has the same path and secure args if they were used initially.

as far as macx, ugh. i don't know what to suggest. i also don't have a mac (i despise them , but that's not what this thread is about) but i'd at least like to know that my site works on them.

 

[lomn75]

Bump...
Best I can tell, my syntax matches the above.
Also, this code is fubar on SourceForge servers with FF and IE (windows), so it's apparently not just a browser issue.

(The output buffering is enabled because content is generated before the cookie is reset to "")